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2nd LD Writethru: British's Lib Dems, UKIP leaders resign

Xinhua, May 8, 2015 Adjust font size:

Nick Clegg, leader of the British Liberal Democrats Party, Friday announced his resignation as the party leader after a "crushing" defeat in the 2015 General Election.

Nick Clegg is also the ex-deputy Prime Minister of Britain.

Earlier, Nigel Farage, leader of the Eurosceptic right-wing UK Independence Party, also announced his resignation after his failure to win the seat in South Thanet from the Conservative Party.

South Thanet is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of British parliament.

Clegg said he would quit as leader after a crushing set of losses, as his party members Vince Cable, Danny Alexander, David Laws, Simon Hughs and Charles Kennedy all failed to lock seats in the House of Commons of Britain during the election. And some of them are ex-senior officials in the previous Conservatives-Lib Dems coalition government.

Farage insisted that he had "never felt happier," with a "weight lifted off his shoulders."

According to the results from individual constituencies released at 1100 GMT, British Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives have already secured 325 seats out of 641 seats. The Lib Dems only won eight seats, far less than its previous 55 seats. UKIP pocketed one seat. Nine more seats are expected to be declared afterward. Endit